The 2020 Minneapolis Riots Prove Mamdani Is No City Manager — Just an Unhinged Ideologue Instigating Chaos

New York voters are playing a dangerous game by elevating radical activists Mamdani — a man who masquerades as a public servant while peddling extremist ideology. He isn’t a leader. He’s a performer. A Twitter activist dressed up as a policymaker — one whose ideas would devastate this city and endanger its people.

Mamdani has never managed a city agency, never led a complex initiative, and never solved a serious problem in elected office. What he has done is glorify chaos, encourage disorder, and call for the dismantling of the very institutions that keep New York functioning.

Look no further than May 2020. As riots consumed Minneapolis and unrest swept across cities nationwide — including New York — Mamdani rushed to Twitter not to condemn the violence, but to rationalize it. “While politicians & pundits condemn the uprising in Minneapolis from TV studios thousands of miles away,” he wrote, “those at the center of it — even those who are hurting — understand why it’s happening.” A message that sounded more like justification than leadership.

That same month, he posted a favorite line of Marxist revolutionaries: “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.” These aren’t harmless slogans — they’re signals of a deeply ideological worldview untethered from the real needs of New Yorkers.

Mamdani’s hostility toward law enforcement is just as dangerous. On June 8, 2020, he tweeted: “We want to defund the police.” Weeks later, he doubled down: “The NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.” He even equated public safety with radical activism, posting: “Queer liberation means defund the police.” And in case anyone missed the message, he spelled it out: “Defund the police & build a socialist New York.”

This isn’t the mindset of someone prepared to govern a city of 8.5 million people. It’s performance art. A worldview built on hashtags, slogans, and ideological purity tests — not the complex, grounded thinking required to run a city that never sleeps.

Mamdani doesn’t believe in compromise. He doesn’t believe in public safety. He doesn’t believe in building coalitions to solve real problems. He believes in burning things down — literally and politically.

New York doesn’t need a mayor who tweets Marxist slogans, flips off statues, and glorifies unrest. It needs leadership grounded in reality, experience, and a deep respect for the delicate balance that keeps this city safe, functioning, and moving forward.

The choice is clear: New Yorkers can choose stability, safety, and serious leadership — or they can hand the keys to a radical ideologue whose playbook is protest, and has no history of effective management on anything or anywhere.